Roman Catholic Worried... Options

As you can tell from the topic title, all this stuff interests me and I'd like to be able to perform some of it, but everything about the Golden Dawn, Hermeticism, and Ceremonial Magick in general tends to freak me out. I'm a Roman Catholic and I'm obscenely worried about my spiritual self getting into some trouble by doing this stuff. Are there any 'Judeo-Christian' roots to these rituals? I mean it doesn't take a lot to notice the archangels and God's names in the rituals, but seeing videos of people using sinister voices and generally acting like they want to be Lucifer's best friend during said rituals is a little worrisome.

If anyone has any advice for me I'd really appreciate it. I want to be closer with my HGA and thereby God by doing a little magick everyday, I desperately want Him to work through me, but what if unwittingly I allow myself to be worked by an entity with less than amiable goals? Etc., etc.

Thanks in advance..

As you can tell from the topic title, all this stuff interests me and I'd like to be able to perform some of it, but everything about the Golden Dawn, Hermeticism, and Ceremonial Magick in general tends to freak me out. I'm a Roman Catholic and I'm obscenely worried about my spiritual self getting into some trouble by doing this stuff. Are there any 'Judeo-Christian' roots to these rituals? I mean it doesn't take a lot to notice the archangels and God's names in the rituals, but seeing videos of people using sinister voices and generally acting like they want to be Lucifer's best friend during said rituals is a little worrisome.

If anyone has any advice for me I'd really appreciate it. I want to be closer with my HGA and thereby God by doing a little magick everyday, I desperately want Him to work through me, but what if unwittingly I allow myself to be worked by an entity with less than amiable goals? Etc., etc.

Thanks in advance..

I'd suggest some of the older grimoires and some High magick books would help you. They tend to be very soundly rooted in Judeo-Christian thought/belief.

-Modern Magick by Donald Michael Kraig
-Lesser Keys of Solomon (peterson edition)
-The Sacred Magick of Abramelin The Mage (mathers edition)

Also, don't worry if something seems to be 'evil' or 'wrong' to your point of view in a book. If it talks about something that you do not feel like doing, then do not do it. Now, this isn't permission to just completely skip over stuff that seems tedious, and it shouldn't be taken that way, I just mean that, if it goes against what you feel, them don't have to do it. Also, if it is something that you wish to do, but you feel like it will go against your beliefs or whatever, then you can just modify it to suit your beliefs.

A quick reference for you:
I have a friend who is a Christian, yet practices magick and invokes/calls forth energies from different deities other than Christ/God. I asked her how she justified doing this b/c it seemed to me, at the time, that it was going directly against it. She and I had a long discussion about it and I was amazed at how she justified it. She basically said that, if there was a "One and Only God" and if he was, like Jesus on earth (supposedly), a kind and benevolent ruler, then he would not punish her for helping others and herself with whatever means were available to her. In this case, the wasy she brought about healing and growth was magick. What it basically boiled down to was this great quote of hers that became kinda her own personal mantra: "If Jesus was around and saw what I was doing magick, I bet he'd be content in seeing that I was helping others."

Don't know if that helped at all. I hope it did. Goodluck on your journey and enjoy yourself along the way.

P.S.
Btw, for your own information, I have many friends who not only practice their faith in God, but magick too; you're not alone.